Alternative Radio

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A weekly one-hour progressive radio show featuring lectures & interviews with progressive thinkers.

Every Tuesday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.
Our program is carried by over 125 radio stations and heard by millions of listeners. It is produced by David Barsamian in Boulder, Colorado.
Alternative Radio is sustained by donations and by your purchases of season subscriptions, recordings and transcripts. You can make a donation, including a recurring amount charged to your credit card each month, from our donations page.
Because Alternative Radio is a syndicated program, we don't have the permissions from them to post their audio files or transcripts. If you go to the Alternative Radio website, you can download their interviews and lectures for a very low price, and help support their work.

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For decades Palestine and Palestinians were associated with terror and
terrorism. In political discourse and popular culture Palestinians were often
typecast as blood thirsty killers. As the great Palestinian-American scholar
Edward Said once ruefully observed, “Palestin...
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The island of Cuba has preoccupied Washington officials for decades. Prior to
the 1959 Fidel Castro-led Revolution, Cuba was a virtual U.S. colony. It was
also a mafia playground. The Revolution changed all of that. Cuba allied
itself with the Soviet Union. Goaded by an inf...
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Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and has one of the
world's highest murder rates. More than half of its population of about ten
million live in poverty and per capita income is one of the lowest in the
region. Since the June 2009 coup overthrowin...
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Traditional totalitarianism conjures images of jack-booted storm troopers,
death camps and Stalin-like regimes. In recent years a new variety of
totalitarianism has emerged departing from the norm. Noted political theorist
Sheldon Wolin calls it “the inversion of totalit...
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In some ways Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered twice. First by an
assassin’s bullet in Memphis and then by killing his revolutionary message.
Today, King is largely remembered with special holiday sales. His vision of
radical revolution muted. He posed a special t...
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